Vital To Democracy

Friday Forum - A MEASURE OF FREEDOM - Today's topic: Is the First Amendment ripe for reinterpretation? - Readers speak out on importance of constitutional rights.

March 18, 2005

To any conservative who believes that we need to rethink the First Amendment or that stories should be subject to government approval: What would you have thought if the Clinton administration had suppressed any mention of the Monica Lewinsky story?

A free press is vital to a democracy, even if we don't always like what it has to tell us.